Plasma Studio has won the fourth annual Next Generation Architects Award. The studio, which employs 10 architects, was founded by Eva Castro and Holger Kehne in London in 1999, and now has a second office in Italy. The firm won BD’s Young Architect of the Year in 2002, but has yet to... View full entry

The Architect as Creative Genius: CanonizationThe Architect as Sculptor: Issey Miyake flagship storeThe Architect as Icon-Builder: IAC BuildingThe Architect as Urban Planner: Atlantic YardsStarchitecture in the 21st Century: Form Follows Finance A great blog entry @ Critical Cities by D.J. Huppatz View full entry

Joaquin Torres, head architect of A-cero, an architecture, interior and urban design practice based in Spain, presents a book showcasing the best works made by the firm in its first ten years... The material featured in this publication includes early projects such as the geometrically pure... View full entry

UK - In every one of the 66 statements of the questionnaire, small companies (of fewer than 250 employees) score better than their larger counterparts. 3 architectural practices made it to the list. Find out why their offer to staff is hard to resist: Assael Architecture (22), HLM Architects (62)... View full entry

I know you get a lot of unsolicited slingshots and all, but here, I like to say happy birthday to you from the architectural community, who love to diss you, but deep down influenced by your work, whether or not they admit to it. EB View full entry

Here are the Architectural League of NY's Emerging Voices 08: Work.ac | el dorado, inc | Onion Flats | Stoss Landscape Urbanism| Johnsen Schmaling Architects| Moorhead & Moorhead | Belzberg Architects | MOS || (Lectures begin March 5th at the New Museum!) View full entry

"Whether he's designing £100m flats or creating affordable housing for all, Richard Rogers has just one mission: to make everyone's life more enjoyable " - Glancey in The Guardian. View full entry

Scholarship was sacred to Colin St John Wilson, architect of the British Library. As a new exhibition commemorates his life and work, Fiona MacCarthy salutes the grand vision of his most personal project. Guardian View full entry

The G&M also serves up some Asymptote... View full entry

The Globe & Mail interviews Dutch-born/NYC-based Winka Dubbeldam. ReadAt the Interior Design Show in Toronto next weekend, she plans to speak about how industrial design can influence and shape architecture processes. View full entry

Want to know what matters? Especially what matters to Bob Somol... see the new director of UIC in this recent YouTube set of clips from Otis College. Also, there is a short bite of Somol from last years projective landscape conference on Google Video. View full entry

Peter Cook and Thom Mayne will join Dean Qingyun Ma tonight at USC for a panel discussion on the state of architectural education... Seeley G. Mudd Auditorium SGM 123 East of Watt Hall, USC School of Architecture along Bloom Walk 02 19 2008 6PM USC School of Architecture University of Southern... View full entry

Czech-born British architect Jan Kaplicky, whose project for a new National Library building in Prague prompted a stormy debate last year, might become an external architecture adviser to the city of Brno, under a preliminary agreement he struck with Brno's Mayor on Monday. Prague Daily Monitor |... View full entry

A conversation with architects Qingyun Ma and Thom Mayne - Sunday February 17th, 2008 at 9pm on 89.3 KPCC FM, Zócalo Radio Mayne says, people believe that L.A.’s residents are comfortable living in a “fake old new world,” rather than “exploring what it means to be... View full entry

Architecture is being feminised. Amanda Levete of Future Systems discusses soft swoops, flowing loops, and why hard-edged modernism is so over - TimesOnline View full entry